The Sun. — London, England, 1826-04-25 00:00:00

OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, - -I observe, among the minor topics discussed in the House of Commons on Thursday evening (20th), the enforcement of the laws respecting the violation of the Sabbath briefly commented upon by Sir J. SEBRIGHT, on the occasion of presenting, a Petition from the Thames Waterman. This respect able body complain, apparently with great justice, that , by the partial infringement of the laws alluded to they are .prevented from following their avocation on Sun days, whilst their formidable rivals, the steam-boats, are allowed to traffic unmolested, and they might have added, I think, with equal truth and justice , the w hole host of public conveyances of every description, be sides hired private ones ; and for myself, I do not see. why the same principle should not be extended to other private conveyances, not literally hired, as well to equestrianism and pedestrianism in the abstract ; or, in short, where is the limit to be drawn ? Much as I am disposed to admire the wisdom of our Legislature in general, I confess I have always thought the enact ments respecting the observance of Sunday very unfair in their principle, and very inadequate and partial in .theirapplications they have more than any other . 4aws, however well administered, a direct tendency to 'irritate and oppress the lower classes, while they leave they higher absolutely untouched. I willingly admit, in general, that - such enactment is necessary to secure the cessation of public , business and the closing of 'shops, tke.; but we think a number of petty details, which the enforcement of these laws is often made to einbme, had infinitely better be let alone. So far from promoting the cause of Religion, we are con vinced,, from facts and experience, that such regula .tions have a direct tendency to'produce a hatred for •Religion. So far ,from being serviceable to thecause •of morality, I am satisfied they only driive the lower classes into dissipation and vice. REJECTED EPIGRAMS. EDITOR,-•-I have hailed the increased light -;with which your Sun has lately enlivened us, with :as much pleasure as a sick man welcomes the return of summer. Ino sooner read your address to the 'public, which, though modest in its pretensions, held 'forth alair promise of future excellence, than I deter . mined to assist your laudable exertions by the occa sional contribution of some light articles. If " Re jected Addresses," thought I, have been so favourably received, and " Rejected Reviews" are at this in tstant making their progress through the press ; why •should not the publication of Rejected Epigrams be en . titled to an equal share of public interest? In short, this favourite idea took such forcible possession of my ima-: 'gination, that I resolved,' without a, moment's delay, .to apply to the Editor of the Morning Chroniele.for his 'assistance ; for, as that paper has shown such remarkable taste in the selection of the Epigrams 'with which it has favoured the public, I thought it probable tha 'the same happy discernment Would be found to ,have , regulated its principle of rejection, and that some ar ticles of extraordinary piquancy might be discovered in the 'feu d esprit wbieh have been thrown aside. accordingly wrote a civil note to the aforesaid gentle ' man, and requested that instead of consigi' his Rejected Epigrams to the ,fire, he would allow me to throw them into the Sun. My messenger shortly re turned with a bundle of scraps and fragments, which • I eagerly seized for examination. I first drew out a slip of manuscript, fastened by a black pin, to a para graph which had been cut out from the columns of the --Hampshiro Telegraph." The letter contained an extraordinary, but well authenticated account, of a Duch which had been lately shot . near Portsmouth, in the gizzard of which 63 pieces of metal, which proved to betold, had been discovered ! After perus ing the writing attached to this paragraph, many parts of which were nearly illegible, from the thumb marks of the Devil, I made out the following Epigram : ,llow can we explain this gold In the gizzard, Except by the spell of some powerful wizard ? ' Though 'tis known, to be sure, and strange stories are told, • -now oimeking• has furnished vast treasures of gold. This Lfuck, not a low one, may perhaps owe its wit, To'the wholesOme example of Rome trading elt Who pouches the gold, he may ON by his Anti meets all his wants by the aid of a Da .The 'next' article which presented itself occasioned conSiderable perplexity. It was disfigured by a trans verse scrawl of capital letters, which after sonic trouble made out .to be " WANTS LEAD." " WANTN LEAD," thought I, is it thus that the Editor de nounces it too light a production for his paper ? Im possible, such an idea is not to be reconciled with Ins .well known taste for every thing that is healy. It immediately struck me that the term must apply to the subject, rather than to the execution of the epigram ; but dal idea was at once banished upon the words, ALDr,ItMAN Woon, meeting my eye. "No, no," said 1, " whatever opinion the public may have formed, it is the policy of the editor to keep him qfloat. My perplexities were at thi s moment cleared up by the en trance of a printer, who informed me that it was no thing more than a technical expression to denote the degree of space to be left between the lines of the composition. You, no doubt, Mr. Editor, must have discovered the nature of my mistake long since, but as I hope that the idea of penetrating into the forgotten archives of the printingkiffice, may induce others to follow my example, I thought it right to confess an embarrassment, which might lead those that are inex perienced in typographical mysteries, into the error of consigninpo oblivion compositions, against whi c h the word " LEAD," " MORE LEAD," and the, like, Might have been introduced. The Epigram to which _I allude was in a very tattered condition, and, from its s uperscription, appears to have been written at the time of A - Worn - um 'Wood's election into Parliament, durin g his Mayohlty. It ran thus— 11.e 4 1; 6:ornethio?4,lle's rotitirft 4 ,g man and a mouse ; bird, in tltc. city, .meta lirinul in ti'e noun.% nosit'„re in this, unien you've f(*rgotten, Th at 'roar; t i lie'best prop for a Flouse that i% rotten. There were , two other lines, but so defaced was the writing► that the only words I could make out _ _ . [lean of Odle—Bark in the Clouse. It is my intention to pursue these researches, and, should any thing of interest occur, you may depend upon receiving a communication from me. I remain, &c. X. SOCIETY of ANTIQUARIES of LONDON. Sunday being ST GEORGE'S DAY, the Society of Antiquaries met yesterday, at their apartments in So merset Place, in pursuance of their statutes and char ter of incorporation, to elect a President, Council, and Officers of the Society for the year ensuing, where upon George. Earl of Aberdeen. Thomas Amyot, Esq. Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. Taylor Combe, Esq. Henry Ellis, Esq. Hudsoh Gurney, Esq. Henry Hallam, Esq. William Hamilton, Esq. J. M. Kirkland, Esq. Matthew Raper, Ef4q; ' ' • Right Hon. C. W. Williams Wynn, were re-chosen of the new Eleven. of the Council, Council ; and, George Henry Lord Eishop off Joseph Gwitt, Esq. Bath and Wells. Nicholas Lord Bexley. John Bidwell, Esq. Francis.Chantrey, Esq. Francis Freeling, Esq.. _ . Wm. Marsden, Esq. Rev. Robert Nares. Right Hon. Sir Gore Ouseley, • Dart. . Edward Rudge, Esq. Ten of the other Members . of the Society were chosen of the New, Council, and they were severally declared to be the Council for the year ensuing ; and on a Report made of the Officers of the SoCiety, it ap peared, that George Earl, otAberdeen, K.T. was elected President. Thomas Ainyote Esq., Treasurer. Taylor Coinhe, Esq., ALA., Director. Nicholas Carlisle, Esq., Secretary, and • Henry Ellis, Esq., 13.C.L., Secretary, for the year smiling. The Society afterwards dined together at the Free Masons Tavern, according to annual custom. NATIONAL GALLERY. The following is a copy of the Treasury Minute, dated 23d March, 1826, directing the purchase of three Pictxres for the National Gallery:— The Earl of Liverpool lays before the Boards Paper, which has been addressed to him by Lord Aberdeen, Sir Charles Long, Sir G. Beaumont, Sir Thomas► Lawrence, and Mr. Seguier, re commending that three Pictures, the property of Mr. Hamlet, viz.— . . , Bacchus and Ariadne - by Titian, • • Christ appearing to St. Peter - by A. Carracci, Bacchanalian Scene - - - by N. Ptomain should be purchased for the National Gallery, at the sum of 9,000/., demanded by Mr. Hamlet ; and his, Lordship recom mends to the Board to purchase these Pictures for the public. My Lords concur with Lord Liverpool in the expediency of securing these Pictures for .the public; and they direct that they may be purchased accordingly. If every man who exhibits a picture to the trustees for purchases for the National Gallery, is affronted be cause they will not buy it, and if the officious friends of every one so affronted are to addreSs letters to the public in the Newspapers of the day, we must not .be very unreasonable in . dur expectations of the good sense or justice of the"remarks that will be offered upon' the occasion. There is one Alfred of the Times (certainly not the good old Times), who epistolizes largely in this.way ; we do not, however, recollect that he made 'any, very good hits, and as he has now betaken himself to low personal scurrility, we may feel sure that he is himself conscious of his failure. His last observations indeed we cannot descend lo'nOtice, and shotild be inclined to suspect that_ they will hardly ever meet with the ap plaute of his own evening club. The fact is, that there have been now added to the original collection of ..Mr,Angerstein simply four pie- . tures, all of which are iilloWed,by . aato•bareally good pictures, and worthy. of, a, place the ~National For these pictures large prices have been paid, because without large prices • they could not have beenprocured ; and then, because theprices are large, certain anonymous writers exclaim •that there must have been unfair dealing. Now we assert, that if endeavouring to force the Committee to buy by heap ing abuse upon them when they do not the publication of falsehoods,—if resentment for therejee timi of avaricious offers may bear the name of unfair dealing, then, much more has been exhibited to• the public by the assailants than by .the assailed. The most thinking people indeed., are not so easily gulled, and they, will see of themselves on which side the unfairness really lies, and from what cause it ori ginated. _ As to the prices paid, it is clear that a picture whe.. ther for this Gallery, or any other, is worth just what it will fetch ; and : ngland, though the cheapest place for the purchase of pictures of a moderate value, will be found, by all who dabble in such matters to be the dearest in the world.for the real chefs d'aztvre of art. One cannot, indeed, now speak with certainty of the comparative value of all the Titians and Caraccis that are at this moment - to be parted with, so as *to set them against the lately purchased pictures. But of the Cor regio which was bought last year We may; speak ; and though no more than 3,0001. was paid for that picture, we know that more than '28,0001. was at that moment expected to be realised by two pictures of that same master, then in the possegsion of a Noble Peer. Nor is it 'an unfair inference that a Corregio, even of so small a size,. was not to be expected to he saleable at a lower price. • _ We will not state the question unfairly here on either side. This painting by Corregio, we allow,. is not on a scale that affords us any display of some of the extraordinary peculiarities of that master ; it gives us no idea of his real greatness of design, nor of those inimi table powers that •he possessed of depicting the flesh of the human body ; still it is an excellent picture, and as the market stanch (we repeat it), a picture well worth the money paid. • . ,• . . As to proofs of genuineness and authenticity, even, the scurrility of a minor con no i sseur mus t a d m it th a t these words are somewhat vague. If the majority of the reputed best judges agree in their opinion upon such t ioints, it is the best guarantee that can be offered. Unanimity in most cases is literally never to be ob tained ;' and every person who has ever visited Italy, or even heard 'of the various and varying dicta of the Academies of that country, as pronounced with re gard to the same picture, will duly appreciate the truth of what is here advanced. BALL FOR THE •BENEFIT OF THE DISTRESSED SILK WEAVERS IN SPITALFIELDS.—The Lady Mayoress has been extremely active in procuring the co-operation of a number of ladies of rank to patro nize a grand ball for the benefit of the distressed Silk- Weavers of Spitalfields. We understand it is certain that her Ladyship's exertions will be attended with the most gratifying success. She has the aid of the Marchioness of WORCESTER, and the patronesses of ALm ACK ' PL It is intended to obtain the Opera house forthe occasion, and a meeting of the Ladies will, we understand, be held this e vening, to consider of some r e g u l a ti ons as to t h e d ress which may be necessary to rec ommen d, for the encouragement of the manufactures of the poor workmen whom it is in tended to relieve, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Our Port Letters of this morning contain no news. whatever. Lieutenant Thomas Lynn, R.N., one of the Lieutenants of Greenwich Hospital, died on the 19th instant. Commodore Sir James Brisbane, in a letter dated Prome, Oct. 28, bears the following honourable tribute to the memory of a young Officer of his ship :--1‘ I regret to have to trouble you with an' account of the dea r th of Mr. Thomas Mure, Midshipman on bOaid the ship which I command: He was attacked by fever at this place on our joining the army a short time ego, and after an illness of only-a few days, died onboard the 116adicea, at Rangoon, whether he had been sent iu the hope that change of air might mitigate the severity of his illness. In him the service has lost a promising young officer, and society a most intelligent and honor able Gentleman. I sincerely regret him, and participate deeply in the distress which such a loss in the bloom of life must be to his family." • . The Atlas, Hynes, front China, was at the Cope of Good Hope 20th February, waiting for Lord Charles Somerset, who had taken his passage in her. The Maitland, Sttuld, was to sail from Rombay on the 26th December. The Sarah, Tucker, 7th January; Upton Castle, Thacker, sth February ; all for London ; and the. Alfred, Lamb, 19th January, for Liverpool. The Lowther Castle was to sail from China on the 16th January for London. The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel, the Sir Edward Banks, arrived yesterday from Ilamburgh, in 54 hours, with passengers and carriages, and an immense quantity of bullion, principally consigned to Messrs. Rothschild and Co. The Maitland, Studd, was to sail front Bombay on the 26th of December; the Sarah, Tucker, 7th of January ; Upon Castle, Thacker, sth of February,,, all for London ; and the Alfred, Lamb, 19th of January, for Liverpool, The Lowther Castle was to sail from China on the 16th of January for London. The Atlas, Hynes, from China, was at the Cape of Good Hope the 20th of February, waiting for Lord Charles Somerset, who had taken his passage in her. NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN COFFEE-HOUSE, APRIL 25. COWES, APRIL 23.-Arrived the Shepard, J. Hull, American ship, from Mantangas; 30 days out, for orders ; arrived at Man tanzas on . the 18th March brig Socrates, from Buenos Ayres, and spoke on the 18th inst., in lat. 43. 40. long. 17. 31. barque George, N. Shullus, 'for Newfoundland; spoke on the 21st inst. lat. 49..50. long.' 9. 25. ; passed a fleet of about '7O sail, prin cipally English vessels; among which spoke the brig Ephiginia, Of Liverpool, for Detnerara ; also the brig Ann, from London, for narbadoes; spoke 20th inst. brig Seneca, of New York, 40 days from New 'Orleans, bound to Havre, off the Land's End ; Eagle, Chew, American ship, from Rotterdam, off the Wight. Pallas, Brewster, American barque, came out of harbour, and sailed for Boston. Aran. 24.—Wind N.—Jane, Davide, arrived from sea, put a pilot on board the American brig Seneca, Captain Lively, 39 days from New Orleans, for Havre, she experienced a severe hur ricane on the 28th of March and lost part of her deck load. Spoke 19th April off tho Start American brig Charles Miller, Davis, 21 days New York, for Antwerp; American ship Lydia, Thompson, 36 days from New Orleans for Havre American brig Balize, of Philadelphia, Wildes, 39 days from Mobile, for Havre, all well. John and Margaret, Holmes, sailed for Sun derland. LivratrooL, N.N.W.—Arrived the John Beggar, Blair, from Bombay; Courier Cawthrone, from Jamaica, both of old dates. Off at iun set six brigs. [FROM LLOYD'S.] DEAL, APRIL P,4.—Wind, N.ii—Arrived and sailed fur the River, the Stately,' Edgar, and Pergey Hall, —, from Jamaica. The HOnotirable Company's ship Fart:ph:lrian, • , from China; Iris, Butcher, from Almeira;• Apocrate, Gilbert, for ,Trieste; and Tula; Vickers, from Smyrna. Also the Sarah, Gibson; front Shieldi4 for Malta; the Two Brothers, An derson, from Nfemel fn. Oporto: Passed through from the River the. indemnity, Woodall, for Demerara . ; George; Dttpareg, for Antigua ; and Maria, Cleland, the Honduras. The homeward bound ; have sailedfor the River. I~ORTRMOCTII, APR. 24.--Wind W. to N.W.—Passed by the Minerva, Probyn, from Bengal; and the Dutch ship Neder • froni Berbiee, for Amsterdam. ' Sailed the 'Mary; Bridges, for Jamaica., The Parmelia transport, for Guthisey, went out of harbour,' and remains at Spithead. ' . PLY:noun-4 Amu. 23.--Wind N.W.-- , Sailed the Lord Exmouth, Barrett, for St. John's, N. B. ; and British Union, Pawer, for Faro. FALatottnt, 'Aran RS—Mind N.—No arrival., or sailing& ' Cow's,. Arum 24.—Arrived the. Shepherd, Hill, • from:Ma tanzas. • PARTS APRIL 2.l.—The Bolivar, Columbian corvette, bound to the United : States, having on board officers fur the squadron purehised there, has r been capturedby two Spanish frigates. The Mayflower', Snow, sailed fr'om Bordeaux for Philadelphia, and had not arrived on; the 11th . _ Arrived off the Wight the IVlagdalena, Dehl, from Havanna ; and the Seneca,: Lively, from New Orleans. Arrived off the Start, the Charles Aliller, frotn New York; and the Wm, from Nev Orleans. Arrived off Dover the Rawlins; Regmtuien, from Jamaica. HORRID MURDERS. An Inquest was held yesterday at the London Hospital, Mile-end, on the body of William Bartlett, a Scotch labourer; The deceased lived with a woman named Anne Eb: liott, in Brook -street, Mile-end. On: the evening of Thursday, the deceased was seen staggering , along Brook-sttkvt, towards his house; he was then much intoxicated. Anne Elliott was standing at the street dOor, and as soon as she saw the de ceased, she retired into the entry, and hid herself under the The deceased having entered the house, walked to the top of the kitchen stairs, when the woman rushed . from her hiding-place, put both her hands on the deceased's shoulders, and with great violence pushed him down the stairs, 'and he fell to the bottom. After committing this outrage, she returned to the door, and said to thoSe who were there, " What do you think of that fin. a West country woman ?" The persons who beard her utter this expression were of opi nion that she was intoxicated. She returned to the stair-head, however, and looking down, said, a Yen may lie there and die, you old rogue." About an hour afterwards, some of the other lodgers in the house, having been informed of what had occurred, procured assistance, and went doWn to the deceased. He had, it appeared, fallen on the stone flooring, and a considerable quan tity of blood had issued from his head. The woman was desired to procure medical assistance, but she manifested great 'reluctance to procure it, and said ahe would do very well: when he had got rid of some more of his mad blood." She, at length went to Dr. Harkness, but returned, stating that the Doctor was not at home, and she could procure no other. The deceased was then removed to the hospital, but (lied on the road. 'The woman complained that the deceased had that morning pawned the bed, and obtained liquor with the money. The surgeon of the hospital ..tated, - that the fall had caused a determination of blood to the head, and that even if assistance had been promptly obtained, the nature of the injuries were stich, that no human power could have saved him,—The Jury., having consulted together, returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against. Anne Elliott."—A warrant was immediately is sued for her committal to Newgate. Dun" APRIL 21.—Yesterday morning, the Rev. Mr. Wo gan,, Curate of St. Mary's, Donnybrook, an aged gentleman of the most exemplary manners and amiable character, was found by his servants murdered in a most inhuman manner between four and 'five o'clock in the morning. From all the circumstances which have transpired on the investigation; it would appear - that a man named Patrick Kelly and his'wife, both aged, had lived for some years as servants with the deceased gentleman, and about two o'clock yesterday morning heard a noise in the sitting masterroom, being engaged they at first thought was occa s i one d b y t h eir engaged in reading; but shortly afterwards, hearing a foot on the stairs; Kelly got out of bed and went to the door of the kitchen where he slept, and bolding the dour partly open, asked "is that you, Sir ;" upon which he re ceived a severe blow on the head that knocked him 'senseless:— i t , ip s o ru n as c te o r m e in ry g o to ut se h v il e i r ise al l t f im so o m , e ,, t o im h e Laoftredrwl O ar i t i ls Lo K rd el l ly , , h vi er ich d exclamation was shortly succeeded by the noise of persons corning down stairs, whom he heard going out by the back-door.—Coro ners's Verdict.--'c Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1826. We announced in our Paper of yesterday, the ar rival of a ship from Calcutta. By this opportunity, Dispatches were received at the India House from the Governor-General of India, with enclosures from Sir ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, containing the details of the operations of the Army against the Burmese in the early part of December, the general rerult of which has been known for some time. A Morning Paper, in reporting the receipt of these Dispatches from Sir ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL at the seat of war, states that they announce the capture of Bhurtpore, as well as confirm the accounts previously received of the defeat of the Burmese. How Sir ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, commanding the Army at Prome, could know any thing of the operations of the force before Bhurtpore, we leave to be explained by the Paper alluded to ? But this we can state, that at the date of these Dispatches, no account of the fall of that important fortress had been received by the Gover nor-General in Council, nor can we learn that any such report prevailed in Calcutta at the latest date of private letters from thence. Since writing the above, we understand that Govern ment have received dispatches, containing the particu lars of the victory gained by the British forces over the Burmese on the 3d December. Captain DAwsoN of his Majesty's ship Arachne, was killed at the moment of victory being declared. In our selection of leading articles from the daily Morning Papers, in our last page, will be seen one from the Morning Herald, replying to some obser 'vations which we offered a few days ago upon the strictures of that paper on Naval Promotions. We include this article in our selections, to avoid the im putation of being unfair disputants—not from , supposing tnat it can afford any amusement or in struction to our readers. For ours Aves we shall only observe, that instead of declamation and scurrility in reply to the observations we made, vv hich can never assist any cause, much less bol ster up so weak a one as that in which the writer of the articles in question has embarked, we expected that some facts would have been produced, upon which a justification of the attack on the Naval. Administration, in respect to promotions, would have been attempted. This certainly, if it could have been done, would have been more satisfactory to his Readers than the long tirade he has favoured them with, after an interval of four days preparation. As it is, we shall leave the writer in question to indulge in loose assertions and 'unfair conclusions drawn from presumption only : and, in opposition to his gloomy forebodings of the ruin of the British Navy, we shall unhesitatingly assert, with out the possibility of contradiction, that it never was at any former period of our history in a state so well calculated, in all respects, as at the present, to inspire well-founded confidence, and to justify anticipations of its future glory. • The French papers of Saturday evening, and the Etoile, dated Sunday, readiul us last night. The followiiag is the only paragraph 'of the smallest in- ST. AiAux.—Holiday at the Bank, Exchequer, Ea=t India and South Sea Houses. PRICE OF IRISII S: flank Stock (Joy. Deb. 3} per cent 9O Gov. Stock, 34. per et.... 04/1 Do. New 4 per cent. New d 0....... 04 Consols 3 percent. Royal Canal Stock -- Grand Canal Stock Bl Ditto Loan, 4 per cent. Ditto Ditto, 6 per cent. ITOCKS, APRIL 22. City Deb. 4 per cent. St. Patrick Insurance .31dis. Royal Irish Ditto ' National Ditto Patriotic Ditto Hibernian Bank Provineihl Ditto Royal Irish 111 ining Imperial Mine .... — Fish Shares Guernsey and Jersey Gottenhurgh France : . Brazil FOREIGN MAILS. :Ink v cp. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 59 minutes after 4. Evening, 23 minutes atter 5. Tat sun, tercst " PARIS, APRIL 22. " The hest letters from the lonian Islands, are of no later date than the 26th March. According to these letters, Ibrahim Pacha made, - on the 19th, another attempt to storm Missolonghi. which was not more fortunate than the preceding. He afterwards offered the garrison four millions of crowns, and a free retreat, but his offers were rejected." Since writing the above, we received Hamburgh Papers and the Allgenzeine Zeitung to the 18th instant, from which we subjoin the following extracts:-- BUCIIARIST, APRIL 3. A French and an English courier, who left Constantinople on the 29th March, bring the news that Ibrahim Pacha, in spite of the defeats which he suffered under the walls of Missolonghi at the beginning_of March, had subsequently made himself master of some of the outworks of the fortress, and was making serious preparations for another general assault. It was, therefore, every moment expected at Constantinople,.that news would come of the taking of the place. BUCHAREST, APRIL 4. The Russian mail brings letters from Constantinople, which re port the assassination of the Editor of the Oriental Spectator.— No details arc given. TRIESTE, APRIL . - Letters from Corfu of 26th of April, say, that on the 19th of 'March, Ibrahim made another fruitless attempt to carry Misso iongbi by storm, and that he afterwards offered the garrison four millions of dollars and a free retreat, but that they refused to listen'to any terms• This article from Trieste is the same as given in the Etoile of Sunday. The Editor of the Allgemeine Zeitunst adds...." A few days must, we think, show how these accounts are to be reconciled with the news of the taking of Mil solonghi by Ibrahim Pacha, which the Frenchpapers so positively fix on the 20th March." VIENNA, APRIL IS. Metalliques, sq.—Bank Shares, 1096. - R0312, *PAIL 2. We have had more foreign visitors here In paision week that could have been expected, after the dulness of the Carnival. The cause is attributed partly to the cessation of all public amusements at Naples during the Jubilee; and partly to the interest which the numerous religious ceremonies which take place in Rome during Passion week excites in foreigners of all religious parties. It wen , therefore to be wished that the weather were suitable to the seal of our visitors; but we hardly remember such bad weather at Easter as we have this year, for it not only began to rain on Wednesday an hour before the commencement of the early mass (Mattutino collo ten Ore, performed in the Sixtine chapel;) but, with the exception of a couple of hours in the - evening, when it cleared up, continued through the following . cleys, Nevertheless the crowd pf strangers, as well in the Sextine Chapel (especially on the first day, Wednesday) as in Saint Peter's, was extremely great ; the hackney coachmen probably never gained so much in three following days as ,in this Easter week. The solemnities began on Palm Sunday, when the Pope ' distributes the palms. As at Candlemas and on Ash Wednesday numerous Protestants were observed among the persons who ap proached the Papal throne. Is this a momentary impulse, or the result of a previous determination? The Pope has gone through the extremely fatiguing duties of the whole week with a dere of energy which astonished every body, if we consider that the reading of the Mass on Easter Sunday, .(to IPC of that only) with the benediction that :follows it, is to account which requires great exertions of the lungs, both i n speaking and singing for three full hours, that the pontificial robes are of cumbrous weight ; and above all, that the whole must be performed fasting from midnight. A person who is acquainted with the history of the Pope's illness might be tempted to see iii it the effects of Divine influence. He sang the Deus Vohisetun St. Peter's church with such a loud and powerful voice that it was plainly heard in every part of that immense edifice: the sole may be said of the berediction delivered from the balcony, which was perfectly intelligible to persons standing on the second great landing of the steps of the church. The Queen of Sardinia and her daughters attended the early mass, as well as that at St. Peters, and the benediction ; the latter in the Colonade, where a covered seat was erected for them. For the last week se e haee had cold rainy weather, and a constant cOal N. E. wind. Most of the fruit trees are in blossom, but we shall have no rail spring, because the gradual transition from cold to warm weather is wanting, which gives that season such ncharta in the north.—(Allgemeine Zeitung, April 18.) STOCKHOLM, APRIL 14. The Archbishop, Bishop of Linboping, the President Bar , " Ehrenborg, several Generals and Colonels, have already arrived here, to be present at the ceremonies after the happy delive r Y °L. the Crown Princess, which is shortly expected. The English Vice-Consul, Crowe, has purchased, for , 466 5 dollars species, the copper mine of Orndal, in Upper Tellers' in Norway, which has not been worked for several years. Count Brahe is expected on the 25th, on his return fttm the mission to St. Petersburgh. COPENHAGEN, A? 11,11. 15. Prince Pignatelli Neufoliton, Charge d'Affaires at this Court , i 4 going to marry the widow of the Counsellor of State, Col °l4 partner in the house of Hanibro and Son. Aron. 19. The sum of 1,115,775 dollars was employed in Mb, in the repair of the dikes injured by the inundation of the sd sad 4th February last year, and 573,399 have been advanced out of thy' fund for the support of the dikes. liesitles this, his Majesty has in various ways granted 167,325.rix-dollars, to relieva,the suf ferers: In' the next two or three years, 900,000 dollars.will br wanted to complete the works, of which the inhabitants may far' oishsoo,ooocalars, so that SOO,OOO will be still wanted. 13Ext.r.t, Arum 19. The Duke of Wellington arrived here this afternoon at fog o'clock, but, as we hear, he will not make gu y stay tliis time. Several. Co ur i ers from St. P eters burrh are sa id to have brought important 'dispatches. There have beett several c onferences b e. tween Count Berustorff andth e R uss ian Minister,' Count Mor o., .4ifkinuann, Ann 21. EXCHANGE ON LO NDON . "7. 1. ; two m o nt hs, 3 6 . (.11cunbargh Papers to Me 24th April-) We perceive that Mr. G Risk LAMB brings forward to-night his motion for allowingpersons prosec uted for felony to make their defence by Counsel, and Ic e must say, that we sincerely wish.him success. assert that the prisoner would not be benefited by the There are, no. doubt, very high a ut horitie s, 4.° change, and that the-Judge at present acts,sdmevih at in the capacity of his Counsel. If this be the CO it is a strange confusion' of offices; but we positivelY assert that the Judge 'does not. always assist the pri soner,, as we have been present at trials where th e charge was a 4 thing but friendly. But supposing that the prisoners were sometimes to be injured by having Counsel, we should still wish t° give . them the option of employing C ou nsel or not , they thought best. Let their bl oo d be o n their 01 heads. We thought that on e doctrine (and the leading one) of the Political E conom ists, -was uni versally admitted, which i s , th a t p ers ons .are tile ! 'Ps hest judges in their own cases, and that they slioub not be interfered with, where other interests ere not affected. And what oth er i n t er ests can he ac fected by allowing Counsel? The only a nswer have ever heard to this q u e sti on .i s , that. the Judges would n ever b e a bl e t o g et th rou gh the twel‘ if Counsel were allowed to make lona-winded i?usinesss spec che ? trial. nom An 9 S n ure e l7, rY if more can is be thiS a made, tisieuffiticniieenot f r t r epre : sent Judges might be as well employed in 1' e514 ,,, 4 , speeches where life i s a t sta k e , as in a horse eil " - :f There is somethi ng p re p osterous i n see ing the tiina e one Court after another occupied for months in alllB t• where parties indulge their mutual spleen about ter of (originally) ten or twenty pounds value, and `tike trials of as m a ny men f or th e ir lives, disposed of i be a rapidity scarcely decorous, in one morning , at Old Bailey. There is another argument which we have he` tile viz.—th a t t h e p u bli c p r osecutor makes no appeal tO feelingsarra of the Jury, but gives a simple tive of th e facts. Is there nothing , t unfair to the . prisoner in a case of circu i t , .stantial evidence for instanc • e, in having 0 . no nocent Lawyer's narrative of facts,. with the. Avid ingeniously dove-tailed, on the one side; whilst 0n drat other no permission is given to make use of hnm e legal acuteness, for the purpose of taking aw 4 ,1 0,.. prejudice whi c h mus t h a ve been produced by 3 1 nected story. . on° It is a vulgar saying* that fair play is a jewel. rtain l Y side h as t h e advantage of Counsel, the othe r ce e a to should h ave i t a l so --but where it cannot be allow one of the parties, it s hould not to either. to , We do not want to force prisoners to have C° 0 1 . 0 1